Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Committee of 100 on the Federal City 2019 Vision Awards recipients include Prologue DC and the Bloomingdale Historic Designation Coalition

See this message from the Committee of 100 on the Federal City:

Note that both Prologue DC and the Bloomingdale Historic Designation Coalition are to receive a Committee of 100 on the Federal City 2019 Vision Award.


The Committee of 100 on the Federal City
invites you to join us in honoring the
2019 Vision Awards winners.

May 29, 2019
6:00 o'clock p.m.
Trinity Washington University
Main Hall -- 125 Michigan Avenue, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20017

Click here to purchase tickets -- $100


General Category
Anacostia Watershed Society
The Parks at Walter Reed
“The Reach” -- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Prologue-DC and Bloomingdale Historic Designation Coalition

Affordable Housing

Portner Flats
SOME Conway Center 
Plaza West/Mission First Housing
MANNA Inc.
Jubilee Housing 
National Housing Trust Communities


Ann Hughes Hargrove Advocacy Award

Fernando Lemos, Co-Founder, Mi Casa


Lifetime Achievement Award

Arthur Cotton Moore, FAIA 


Sponsors
Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development

Judy Scott Feldman
Alma H. and Harry F. Gates
John Lawrence Hargrove


Patrons
Carol F. & Lawrence E. Aten
George R. and Mary Clark
Meg Maguire & Dale Ostrander
Charles Robertson
Kirby Vining

Host Committee
Fay Armstrong
Sanders H. Berk, MD and Sally Berk
William and Patricia Brown
Jenny Sue and Donald Dunner
Stephen A. Hansen
Naima Jefferson
Andrea Rosen
Pat Tiller


Click here to purchase tickets -- $100

Parking:  See https://www.trinitydc.edu/visit/parking/ - Lot #4 is designated for visitor parking and no parking pass will be required for this event.  However, parking is usually available on Michigan Ave, closer to Main Hall.

Shuttle Bus (free) from Brookland/CUA Metro (Red Line):  Trinity operates a free shuttle every 20 minutes from the Metro station, starting on the hour.  See https://discover.trinitydc.edu/safety/metro-shuttle/ for more information on this service.

4 comments:

BCC said...

Bravo, BCA! You are shuttling "the poors" out of Bloomingdale and keeping them away!

Word to the wise: Don't break your arms patting yourselves on the back. It would be embarrassing and unseemly.

Kevin Rapp said...

care to explain, BCC. Figure you are looking to begin a discussion with your post, which on the surface doesn't have any direct correlation to the topic. Are you against historic designations? Or are you just aimlessly complaining?

BCC said...

It's a matter of fact that Historic Designation status conflicts with the creation of affordable housing. The footprints of our homes in Bloomingdale are fixed. If people are only allowed to create a certain construction within their homes, that alters the ability to make more housing (4 floors cannot be 4 flats, only 2 condos). That's really not a big deal for those of us who have families, need the space, and aren't expanding. For someone who would like to create 4 flats, it's another hurdle to clear in order to create housing in the center city.

Scott Roberts of Bloomingdale said...

The restriction on the number of dwelling units is from ZONING and not historic district designation.